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Short Review - Chubby Monster Games' "The Shrine of Olikulese" for FAE

Yesterday I barked for Chubby Monster
Games' FATE module “The Shrine of Olikulese” a fantasy based
adventure for the FATE Accelerated Edition version of the FATE rules.
Before I begin my mini-review of the module I most open with the
caveat that FATE is not my system of choice when it comes to gaming.
I love the concept of FATE and own both Core and Accelerated Editions
and own both Dresden Files books and the adventures for it
(pre-ordered all of them in fact), still I've never actually done
anything but read about FATE. So that said, this review is coming
from a purely academic point-of-view.

The best way to describe “The Shrine
of Olikulese” is to say it dumps the players into the middle of the
story and would seem to work best as an addition to a pre-existing
game, or as an introduction to fantasy-based FATE game. In fact I
would love to see what Chubby Monster can come up with for an actual
setting because this module has some interesting concepts (which I
won't spoil).

The adventure is a simple light dungeon
crawl with pre-planned encounters and tons of room for a referee to
improvise, expand and otherwise make it their own place in their own
world. As I mentioned earlier in the review, “The Shrine of
Olikulese” works great as an introduction and jump-off point for a
FATE based fantasy game, especially with the secret at the end of the
adventure which opens up a proverbial world of opportunities for the
players and gives the referee the ability to create an episodic game
with a large metaplot. What does this translate too? Simple,
inexplicable awesome and I honestly want to see what else Chubby
Monster comes up with the ideas presented in this short adventure.

I would love to end the review here,
but everyone in this world seems to want some negatives and honestly,
I do have two gripes, the first being that I wish the “dungeon”
was bigger, the second would be more randomized enemies in a classic
“wandering monsters” table. However, these are small things that
do not detract from the module or the possibilities this module has.

Good Game Chubby Monster, Good Game.

If anyone reading this hasn't picked up "The Shrine of Olikukese" yet it is available at rpgnow and drivethrurpg for the low price of $1.00! Follow the link to get it!

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